These Are The Richest Self-made Female Billionaires In America

these are the top five wealthiest self-made women of 2022 in a tie for number four we have marion illege it was another record year for little caesars the pizza chain ellich co-founded with her husband mike in 1959. system-wide sales reached 4.8 billion dollars in 2021 up from 4.5 billion dollars illich's detroit red wings missed the nhl playoffs for the sixth straight season after having qualified for 25 years in a row she and her son chris who run illich holdings are partnering with billionaire developer steven ross as lead donors of a 250 million dollar university of michigan research and education center in detroit also in fourth is john l hunt who made her fortune in the trucking industry hunt rang in her 90th birthday this year at an arkansas razorbacks basketball game where the state's richest woman was treated to cake and cheers during halftime the matriarch of jb hunt transport services which she co-founded in 1961 with her late husband has plenty to celebrate strong demand for freight transport pushed revenue up 26 last year to a record 12.2 billion dollars she is the largest shareholder with a 17 stake judy love sits at number three thanks to continued expansion of love's travel stops and country stores which judy and her husband tom founded in 1964. the 25.5 billion company now run by two of their sons opened 38 new locations in 2021 and 18 in the first five months of 2022. judy is a director of the love family fund the family's charitable foundation the second richest self-made woman is judy faulkner her medical records company epic systems booked 3.8 billion dollars in 2021 revenue up 13 from 2020. the wisconsin-based business rolled out a covet 19 vaccine passport tool now available to its 106 million patients who use its mychart software faulkner owns 47 percent of the business she founded in her basement in 1979 and coming in at number one is diane hendricks who made her 12.2 billion dollar fortune through her building supplies company abc supply hendrix has benefited from a pandemic-inspired residential housing boom her fortune has grown by more than one billion dollars this past year thanks to record sales at abc supply the wholesale building supplies distributor she co-founded with her husband its sales hit nearly 15 billion dollars up from 12.1 billion dollars in 2020.